You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE
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Vegeta@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Define free? Constant viruses, trauma from seeing killings and executions. Was it worth it? Sure but it wasn’t free
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
Or dumb songs with swooshes in them lol
Archer@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Using Limewire to pirate Limewire Pro
Limonene@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
And it was GPL, so it wasn’t even copyright infringement.
kaklerbitmap@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Among many other misattributed MP3s I downloaded off LimeWire, I remember downloading an mp3 of a “new leaked Nine Inch Nails song” called “Digital” that even had an intro read by a some DJ on a radio station (supposedly).
It ended up not being Nine Inch Nails, but I loved the song anyway, and had no idea what it was until a decade later when I found it again online. Still fuckin rocks too:
Boom Boom Satellites - Push Eject
I also remember a Tetris Theme remix by Aphex Twin that was very much not Aphex Twin.
I also remember downloading the Aphex Twin remix of Beck’s "Devil’s Haircut"and the remix was so bad I thought it had to be fake (it’s not).
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
Dude what is this Tetris one. I remember this too.
I also remember some some that was by a dj called dj triangle and it was a super high tempo song with all kinds of songs mixed in. Haven’t found it since those days.
JacksonLamb@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Somewhere in my files I still have the recording of a hoarse male voice singing along to Ricky Martin’s “Bailamos”, purportedly recorded from Martin’s mic by a sound tech when he was lip synching live on stage.
Probably fake but I want to believe.
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I actually still have songs in my playlist that I discovered the same way. A lot of the saints were incorrectly labeled so it was hard to make sure you got the right one without listening to it. Found a lot of unknown artists this way.
creamlike504@jlai.lu 4 hours ago
It was FREE.
But at what cost?
DoubleSpace@lemm.ee 4 hours ago
EVERYTHING!
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
And when you downloaded “Yoursong.mp3.exe” you knew you were about to have the best day ever!
(To this day it amazes me how so many people don’t pay attention to file types and keeps them hidden.)
DmMacniel@feddit.org 12 hours ago
I blame Windows, as it (I believe) hid file extensions of known file types by default. Was it, because it was aesthetically more pleasing? I dunno but it sure was a hazard for the unaware user.
Limonene@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Their entire security model depends on knowing file extensions, but they still hide them. Even if you enable it, there are some extensions that still won’t show, like .lnk (shortcut file). You can absolutely have executable code, and therefore malware in a .lnk file.
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
And most porn was that middle eastern dude getting his head cut off.
GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 3 hours ago
I remember actually searching that one out to see. Strange what you’ll do when you’re a teenager.
superkret@feddit.org 11 hours ago
Fuck you for triggering that memory.
I can still hear the sounds he made.FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 6 hours ago
Was that the Chechen rebel video because I hated that
BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
We all on here pretending Napster wasn’t the OG? The transition to kazaa was painful.
grue@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Napster was so early that most folks didn’t have the bandwidth and CPU speed to deal with decent-quality video yet, so it initially only did MP3s. I think some folks forget about it because they didn’t get into the piracy scene until they could get TV shows/movies/software etc.
f314@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I vividly remember spending twenty minutes downloading a single song over my 56k modem 🥲
JacksonLamb@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I still have a few folders of music from Napster.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 7 hours ago
No, the real problem was that Napster had central servers that could easily be taken down via litigation. Limewire was fully P2P so there was no single point of failure.
LordBelphegor@lemm.ee 11 hours ago
lots of free viruses too.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 hours ago
I feel like I have more availability to get what I want now, than when I was using Limewire/Kazaa/Napster/eMule/etc.
If it was super popular, you could get it. If it was obscure, uncommon, niche, and other synonyms, if you did find it 90% of the time it was simply given an incorrect name and wasn’t actually what you wanted.
M154nthr0p3@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Private trackers have gotten way better. I think they’ve figured out how to retain obscure and rare things. At least RED, GGn, OPH, BTN and PTP have. I’m sure there are others.
Come back to torrenting if you feel trapped by subscriptions and enshittification. There is a bar to entry, but it ain’t too bad.
I do miss the weird fake tracks. There was a whole 3rd “Portishead” album that fake.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 hours ago
I kinda wanna look up who actually made that “Link, he come to town!” song. Because it sure as hell was not System of a Down. lol
unphazed@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Know anyone with invites to acid lounge? I let my account lapse for like 5 years, and cannot get back in, bo matter how many attempts at requesting.
rosco385@lemm.ee 5 hours ago
Misattribution killed Limewire. Downloading a song that turned out to be something different was annoying, but downloaded porn sometimes turned out to be actual CP.
Carrot@lemmy.today 6 hours ago
Still can brother 🏴☠️
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 56 minutes ago
For those wondering check out Soulseek clients like Nicotine+. Even better, these days most of the files are well tagged.
oeLLph@feddit.org 9 hours ago
M154nthr0p3@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
FUCK, YEAH!!!
thomcat@midwest.social 7 hours ago
Weird Al Yankovic - Oops I’m Pregnant Again (REAL).mp3
OR3X@lemm.ee 12 hours ago
Using LimeWire free to download LimeWire Pro. Classic.
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Limewire was the rotten version of Kazaa, Kazaa lite and Bearshare. Loads of viruses and mallware. By the time Limewire was there, torrents were already so much better, but usenet has always been, and still are far superior. I pay €9,50 for usenet and download anything I want. No more streaming services, just fully automated movie and series downloads with Radarr and Sonarr. It runs on my NAS, so every morning I have new episodes downloaded, repaired, extracted, renamed and placed in the right series folders. I have more rights, better quality, no ads, better service, subtitles, log of what I watched with Kodi, I can stream what I want to watch from my NAS from all around the world.
LordGimp@lemm.ee 11 hours ago
Fuck me i haven’t thought of bearshare in 10 years
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
10? Only 10? Last time I used it was at least 20 years ago. I’m almost 38, I used it when I was 16
taiyang@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Funny how, despite corporate trying it’s hardest to kill it, we’ve only managed to get better, more organized and safer with file sharing (and perhaps because of them, in many ways).
M154nthr0p3@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
YES!!! I just want to take the normies with me.
floo@retrolemmy.com 13 hours ago
Before torrenting kicked off, this was one of the only ways you could ever get anything. And it was great!
Dasus@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Dc++ as well
coaxil@lemm.ee 9 hours ago
Meh mule/donkey network ftw back then!
Turret3857@infosec.pub 5 hours ago
no one has mentioned SoulSeek yet
Allero@lemmy.today 36 minutes ago
This! Also, I have never found a single incorrect naming there.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
Even if somehow a quarter of the songs you downloaded started with “My fellow Americans…”
workerONE@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Quality: 5 stars but it’s a 128mb MP3
Botzo@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
For sure. You weren’t gonna hear the difference on your $2 headphones or the speakers connected to your monitor anyway.
Plus, file size was king. My first mp3 player (drink dmp 90) had 16MB of internal memory and used those original SD cards for more (up to 32MB, but who could afford that?).
So 128kbps offered a really great compromise because it was still better than FM.
db2@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
SongYouWanted.mp3.txt.rar.zip.lnk.exe
fox2263@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Am I right in thinking that limewire and kazaa were like proto-BitTorrent ? P2P file sharing
Was Napster the original too?
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 8 hours ago
Napster was the first dedicated p2p file sharing program IIRC. Peer-to-peer was done before then using DCC (direct client connection) on IRC servers, but it was hardly the same experience. Limewire and other BitTorrent software took off after the music industry killed Napster.
The brand was brought back a while later, and it was legitimate if I recall, but by that time nobody cared. BitTorrent had taken center stage, and iTunes had become a thing. The latter eclipsed BitTorrent (for music) because it was dead nuts reliable, and unlike BitTorrent, using it wouldn’t get your Internet cut off. And it was wired into the iPod ecosystem, so for most people it was a very easy choice.
son_named_bort@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
They even had “Don’t Worry, be Happy” by Bob Marley.
HyonoKo@lemmy.ml 11 hours ago
That Turbo-Charged connection was pulling more than 200 KB/s
the_dopamine_fiend@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
h0p3@lemm.ee 3 hours ago
/salute. The old dev of WinMX has continued. Check out Tixati, DarkMX, and Fopnu.Hatshepsut@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Yes! Got a lot of mislabeled songs I ended up really liking and expanded my tastes quite a bit. Fun times
rugburn@lemmynsfw.com 13 hours ago
Including NIMDA!
RedEyeFlightControl@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
In 2001 my Uni’s entire campus network was shut down for 3 days to clean up a massive NIMDA infection. Wild times.
MissJinx@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
could? Idk bout you but I still can lol
emberpunk@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
Fake system of a down - link song was golden.
2deck@lemmy.world 18 minutes ago
Download Worms.exe
I just wanted to play worms
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
Duuuude. I just decided to look this up on chatgpt. I had no idea that was NOT system of a down. Sounds exactly like serj lol. I used to crank that shit. Be sure link. He come to town. Come to save! The princess Zelda!
emberpunk@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
haha that’s funny. Sorry to break the news though.